Benefits2 with Christine Brunsden | E274

Jason talks to Christine Brunsden, CEO of Benefits2, a web-based application designed to help people and medical practitioners identify disabilities that qualify for the Disability Tax Credit. It also assists them by saving time and money while increasing the rate of success when applying for the Disability Tax Credit.

Episode Highlights

• 02:56: Through her teenage years, Christine's daughter went downhill, and she ended up going through some really terrible stuff.
• 03:52: Christine realized how hard it is for young people who are aging out of the system, they don't have the proper support.
• 05:44: Medical practitioners are burning out record numbers. They are not motivated to take their after-hours to fill out third party forms for the government
• 09:41: Christine shares an example of a woman who did her disability tax credit with Benefits 2 on January 31st.
• 11:09: The hard part for everyone involved in tax refund is that nobody has ever taught anything about this in school.
• 12:02: Christine explains how her platform helps people qualify for disability tax.
• 12:45: The government tried to bring in the disability tax motors restrictions act and fix the fee at $100. 
• 17:08: Christine thought the disability tax credit promoters were really predatory in nature, taking that big percentage.
• 19:10: Christine is a huge advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion, and he is also a huge advocate for people with disabilities.
• 24:18: The Canada Caregiver credit, medical expenses, and disability supports deductions home buyer's amount.
• 25:09: 60% of all people who have the disability tax credit are over the age of 55, and the RDSP is not even a benefit for that.
• 26:22: It's not a disability tax credit. It's really an enabling for people with ordinary everyday impairment to their activities of daily living.

3 Key Points

1. Christine shares her daughter's ordeal and how her teacher called her out in front of all of her peers at the age of 6.
2. Christine developed Benefits2 to leave more money in the hands of persons with disabilities and their supporting family members and to ensure Canadians have an option that complies with the disability tax credit promoters restrictions act.
3. Christine explains how they created a platform, a complex algorithm in the background that once you have answered your questions related to your particular impairment, they write the application for success for you, you get a code and the PDF of the application and e-mail.

Tweetable Quotes

• "My eyes are really wide open around the disability taxpayer." - Christine Brunsden
• "If the credit doesn't apply to you, maybe you're not working, but maybe you have a supporting family member, and you can transfer the credits to that supporting family member." - Christine Brunsden
• "Our marketplace will have diversity, equity inclusion, calendars that support all the different awareness dates throughout the country and internationally." - Christine Brunsden

Resources Mentioned

• Facebook – Jason Pereira's Facebook
• LinkedIn – Jason Pereira's LinkedIn
• Woodgate.com – Sponsor
• Podcast Editing

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